Lesson 2: "A" for The Power of Action: Healing Hope and Humor Free Course
The salient point of this podcast episode is the revelation of a transformative and impactful strategy for combating cancer, which emphasizes the necessity of proactive engagement and a positive mindset. I outline the importance of taking decisive action and making an attitude adjustment as essential components of the healing process. Throughout our discussion, I elaborate on the ACTS plan, which serves as a framework for developing a personal cancer coping credo, encouraging listeners to embrace hope and humor in their journey. We delve into practical steps, such as practicing self-compassion, challenging negative thoughts, and focusing on the present, all of which contribute to fostering resilience in the face of adversity. This episode aims to provide listeners with the tools and encouragement needed to navigate their cancer experiences with a renewed sense of purpose and optimism.
The narrative unfolds with Dr. Brad Miller’s compelling revelation of the critical role humor plays in navigating the daunting landscape of a cancer diagnosis. In a poignant reflection on his own experience following a blood test that indicated potential cancer, he illustrates how laughter became a crucial tool for coping with fear and uncertainty. This episode serves as a clarion call to viewers, inviting them to engage with the Healing through Hope and Humor (HHH) initiative—an innovative course crafted to usher individuals through their cancer journey with a spirit of resilience and positivity. Dr. Miller articulates the transformative power of humor, positioning it not merely as a distraction, but as an essential ingredient in the healing process.
Delving into the ACTS framework, Dr. Miller emphasizes the dual focus on Action and Attitude Adjustment, encouraging listeners to take decisive steps towards enhancing their mental fortitude. He presents a compelling case for self-compassion, urging individuals to replace self-criticism with kindness, especially during such challenging times. By advocating for the establishment of small, attainable goals, Dr. Miller delineates the pathway toward empowerment and revival. He underscores the importance of maintaining a present-focused mindset, challenging negativity, and fostering gratitude as pivotal strategies. The episode resonates with hope, encapsulating the essence of transforming despair into strength through the potent combination of humor and actionable steps, thereby reinforcing the podcast's mission of uplifting spirits amidst the trials of cancer.
Takeaways:
- The Cancer and Comedy Podcast emphasizes the importance of taking massive action and adjusting one’s attitude to cope better with the challenges posed by cancer.
- In the episode, we delineate the significance of self-compassion and the necessity of treating oneself kindly during difficult health journeys.
- We advocate for challenging negative thoughts, urging listeners to confront dark places in their minds and replace them with positive affirmations or factual information.
- The discussion includes the value of setting small, achievable goals that can lead to significant progress in the face of adversity, thus fostering a sense of accomplishment.
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Transcript
Hang on there, my friend.
Speaker A:This is the episode where we reveal the jaw dropping secret weapon against cancer.
Speaker A:It has massive impact.
Speaker A:It changes everything.
Speaker A:And yes, it involves just a little bit more than wearing a superhero cape.
Speaker A:Listen on, my friend, listen on.
Speaker B:Cancer got you down?
Speaker B:Pretty, pretty grim, huh?
Speaker B:How about a show that turns the grim into a grin?
Speaker B:Way to go.
Speaker B:You made it here to the Cancer and Comedy Podcast, the show to lift you up with hope and humor that heals.
Speaker B:Now here's your Chief Lifter Upper, Dr.
Speaker B:Brad Miller.
Speaker A:Welcome, my friend, to Cancer and Comedy, the show which is all about healing through hope and humor.
Speaker A:My name is Dr.
Speaker A:Brad Miller.
Speaker A: About a year ago in August of: Speaker A:I got a blood test back saying that I was a candidate for cancer.
Speaker A:And in order to keep, in order to keep from crying, I had to laugh and I knew that I had to do something about this.
Speaker A:I had to take some action of my own and change my attitude about the whole thing to keep from getting down in the dumps and getting down on my.
Speaker A:Getting down to my circumstances and getting dissolved in that and do something about it.
Speaker A:And the something about it is what you're hearing here today is the cancer and comedy show.
Speaker A:And it's also a part of what we're doing here today, which is the HH course, which stands for Healing through Hope and Humor.
Speaker A:It's a free course that we have available for you and it is right here in these first few episodes of our cancer and comedy show.
Speaker A:This is day two of a five day course.
Speaker A:On day one, we talked about the ACTS plan, the axe plan, and about the process, about the importance of having a process to follow to create your cancer coping credo.
Speaker A:And today we're talking about the first letter of that of the acronym acts.
Speaker A:Acts.
Speaker A:And that is a.
Speaker A:So the title, the title of today's episode is Action Taking an Attitude Adjustment.
Speaker A:So we're talking about this whole process here today of the importance of taking massive action and changing everything in your life.
Speaker A:And that's a part of the process of developing your personal credo.
Speaker A:Everything changes when you get cancer and we're going to teach you today.
Speaker A:But how to deal with that.
Speaker A:Everything changes.
Speaker A:Heard about one guy who rammed his boat into a fellow who cut in front of him in his.
Speaker A:In another boat.
Speaker A:It was an obvious case of road rage.
Speaker A:We're talking here today, we're having some fun with some humor there and some one liners.
Speaker A:And we do that.
Speaker A:We tell some humorous stories and we have some fun together because we are really big believers that humor is a part of the process of healing here.
Speaker A:And it's.
Speaker A:We're going to talk, we've talked about some of the psychological and medical processes and today we're going to start talking about what you need to do.
Speaker A:I love the, the fact of this here, this quote here from Wayne.
Speaker A:From Wayne, the famous hockey player Wayne Gretzky.
Speaker A:He says you miss 100% of the shots that you don't take.
Speaker A:And that simply means that you can sit back and let life happen to you or you can get involved and get, get engaged.
Speaker A:I'm also a big fan of, of the, of the classic rock singer John Cougar Mellencamp.
Speaker A:John Mellencamp.
Speaker A:He happens to be from near where I live and Indianapolis, Indiana area.
Speaker A:He's from near here and lives here.
Speaker A:And he's got a great song.
Speaker A:It's not one of his big hits, but the song is called you, Life is now.
Speaker A:And it really speaks to me.
Speaker A:And the lyrics go a little bit like this.
Speaker A:Your life is now, your life is now.
Speaker A:In this undiscovered moment.
Speaker A:Lift your head above the crowd.
Speaker A:We could shake this world if you would only show us how your life is now.
Speaker A:So I just want you to know here, my friend, that your life is right now.
Speaker A:I'm here to help you here on the cancer and comedy show and today during the free course.
Speaker A:The free course about healing through hope and humor is one of the things we'll be doing here today.
Speaker A:We'll also tell a kind of a humorous antidote, a funny, a fun story.
Speaker A:I like to tell bad jokes and dad jokes and tell humorous stories.
Speaker A:It's a part of what we're going to be doing here today.
Speaker A:We'll have a faith break segment.
Speaker A:I'm a, I'm a pastor, so I have a moment when I'm a big believer in telling a bit of, about the biblical story or faith, faith based story that I think is going to speak into your life to help build you up and to keep you from, from breaking down.
Speaker A:And we're also going to have our lifter upper story which is where one of you, one of our listeners has called in and been a part of our story here to lift up and we'll hear a great story of a person who's out there and has been lifted up by as part of their, part of their, part of their cancer journey.
Speaker A:It's great to be with you right now.
Speaker A:Let's get into the content we're talking about here in our free preview course about attitude and adjustment and taking action.
Speaker A:Hello my friend and welcome back to day two of the HHH or Healing through Hope and Humor, a five day free course which is a preview of the free course that you could find@cancerandcomedy.com free.
Speaker A:I'm Dr.
Speaker A:Brad Miller.
Speaker A:I have a doctoral degree in transformational leadership and over 40 years of pastoral experience.
Speaker A:And I've delved into this area of healing with hope and humor and got a few things to share that I think are going to be helpful to you.
Speaker A:On day one of our course, we talked about an introduction to the connections of the psychosocial and the physical health benefits and the mental health benefits of having an attitude of hope and humor and how that impacts your healing.
Speaker A:And we introduce you to the ACTS process and introduce you to the concept of developing your own personal cancer coping credo.
Speaker A:We're going to continue that process here today and day two of the free course as we talk about the letter A in the word ax, the word acts acts, the letter A stands for action or attitude adjustment.
Speaker A:Action.
Speaker A:Taking massive action and adjusting your attitude.
Speaker A:You've heard that before.
Speaker A:Hey, you know that kid needs an attitude adjustment and sometimes it's how jerk a knot in his tail or whatever it is, you know, this kind of thing that we see somebody who may be misbehaving or something and we think they need an attitude adjustment.
Speaker A:But really, here's the thing.
Speaker A:It's when you're going down a pathway that, you know, leads to destruction and demise.
Speaker A:And when we have cancer, we can easily find ourselves in a spiraling pattern that goes to dark places and depression and things like that.
Speaker A:In order to pull out of that, I believe you need to take massive physical action, do something really different than what you've been doing.
Speaker A:And that's kind of the external thing that is actual, sometimes doing actual physical stuff.
Speaker A:That's one part of it.
Speaker A:And the other aspect of it is your attitude.
Speaker A:You need to shift your attitude and make a major mindset, shift from a dark place to a light place, a place of, you know, despair to a place of hope, a place from pessimism to optimism.
Speaker A:That's the type of thing, type of thing that helps you to cope with cancer and with other profound illnesses.
Speaker A:It can be challenging to be sure.
Speaker A:That's why we're here in this course.
Speaker A:But it is possible and particularly if you start to practice it and exercise, taking action and changing your attitude.
Speaker A:It is the Type of thing that can be helpful to get you on a pathway of basically having a, an outlook that's more about healing and hope and positive stuff than deep dark glue.
Speaker A:But take some effort.
Speaker A:It takes some support of other people.
Speaker A:But here I'm going to give you some tips here today as a part of our course.
Speaker A:They're going to help you with these aspects of taking massive action and changing your attitude.
Speaker A:Number one is just practice self compassion.
Speaker A:Just give yourself a break.
Speaker A:You know, be kind to yourself.
Speaker A:A lot of times when people get cancer or something, they beat themselves up.
Speaker A:Oh, man, I had all these bad habits forever.
Speaker A:You know, I drank or I smoke or I, you know, I got, ate too much, whatever it was all right, did this or that or I didn't exercise, whatever it was, I could have done this.
Speaker A:Well, yeah, there's a lot of things we could have, would have, should have.
Speaker A:But now's the time to give yourself a break.
Speaker A:Be kind to yourself and acknowledge that it's kind of normal to have some negative feelings like what could I have done?
Speaker A:Or what should I have done?
Speaker A:Be kind to yourself.
Speaker A:Think about how the things you might say to someone else, maybe, you know, folks in your family or friends who have cancer or some other bad disease, you're not going to say mean things to them like, hey, you're too overweight or you, you know, drank too much, Whatever it is, that, that's not helpful, is it?
Speaker A:Be helpful to yourself and not.
Speaker A:And do not be unhelpful and give yourself the same break that you might offer to a friend in a similar situation.
Speaker A:So I want to encourage you to actually verbally say some words that are kind to yourself.
Speaker A:Say, hey, I.
Speaker A:Out loud.
Speaker A:Say some things like, I deserve a pat on the back.
Speaker A:I'm a good person, you know, I believe in myself.
Speaker A:You know, I like to laugh.
Speaker A:I like to be around my kids and my grandkids.
Speaker A:Give yourself a break.
Speaker A:That's self compassion.
Speaker A:And the practice piece, we like to say practice self compassion means you physically got to do it.
Speaker A:You got to say the words out loud.
Speaker A:Are you going to take the actions, whatever it is?
Speaker A:And the practice piece also means you got to do it on a consistent basis.
Speaker A:Hey, you don't get good at playing golf if you only play golf once every five years.
Speaker A:You got to play on a consistent basis.
Speaker A:You don't become a good piano player.
Speaker A:And by just thinking you're going to do it and wishing you're going to be doing it, you got to get down and play the piano.
Speaker A:I Want to challenge you to practice self compassion.
Speaker A:That's number one.
Speaker A:Number two, is this challenge or negative thoughts?
Speaker A:When those bad things come, call them out.
Speaker A:Call out those dark places and challenge your negative thoughts as they come up and say, you know, hey, stop it.
Speaker A:You know, stop that negative thought about all the dark places that you can tell.
Speaker A:Ask yourself if these thoughts about these negative places you're going if they're based on facts or you're assuming something or assumptions, assuming you know, you know what that does it, you know, makes us go to places that we don't know about.
Speaker A:Okay, that's what assuming does.
Speaker A:The, the antidote to assumption is facts.
Speaker A:Find out stuff, you know, you can say stuff about.
Speaker A:There's people to who've taken done all kinds of weird wacky treatments for their cancers because they just kind of heard about it from some online forum or something like that and they didn't base on any facts with doctors or medical professionals or others who are much more well versed than they are.
Speaker A:Challenge negative thoughts.
Speaker A:When you go to those deep dark places in your mind, say okay, I just want you out of here you bad thoughts.
Speaker A:And this is where people get and goes to some deep places in their own mind and their own hearts and they get depressed.
Speaker A:They just want to pull up the covers.
Speaker A:Well, just call it out.
Speaker A:Say I'm not going to stay there.
Speaker A:I'm not going to stay in the land of bitterness and darkness.
Speaker A:I'm going to go to the land of light and encouragement and do that.
Speaker A:So I want you to challenge those things and you can do it verbally call them out.
Speaker A:And then what do you do when you call out a negative thought is you replace it with either facts or positive thoughts or something that's more realistic.
Speaker A:You know, you try to find out what a lot of people don't go to the doctor for instance, when they start to feeling bad because they assume it's just going to go away.
Speaker A:Well, you got to go and find out what it is.
Speaker A:Get and don't assume the worst.
Speaker A:Find out the facts.
Speaker A:That's where you need to check in with your medical professionals.
Speaker A:So the first one was practice self compassion.
Speaker A:The second one is challenge negative thoughts.
Speaker A:The third one, the third attitude adjustment and action we could take is to focus on the present.
Speaker A:You know, we can still play this woulda shoulda game a lot and by or we can think about what might be and what could be into the future.
Speaker A:Sometimes we just gotta focus in on the moment.
Speaker A:So avoid dwelling on the past and worrying about the Future.
Speaker A:Now I'm gonna encourage you, and as we go on a longer teaching, to process the past and invest in the future.
Speaker A:What I'm talking about right now is dwelling about, oh, what I could or should have done if with that relationship, that relationship that wasn't in a good place when you got diagnosed with cancer, or worrying about the future, about what's going to happen, you know, to my spouse or my kids and that kind of stuff.
Speaker A:Engage fully in the present and focus on that.
Speaker A:Not this isn't about worrying or fretting or stewing.
Speaker A:This is about engaging.
Speaker A:So engage in the present.
Speaker A:And what this does, it helps reduce anxiety.
Speaker A:When we worry and we stew about what has been, that's a recipe for anxiety.
Speaker A:And anxiety is not going to help you in the healing process.
Speaker A:So that's the third practice I'd like you to think about.
Speaker A:First one was self compassion.
Speaker A:The second one, challenge negative thoughts.
Speaker A:The third one, focus on the present.
Speaker A:The fourth, set small goals.
Speaker A:This is when you got cancer or some other big deal going on in your life.
Speaker A:Hey, set realistic and sometimes small goals that you can then, you know, build upon, have small victories.
Speaker A:You know, what's the old thing about how do you eat an elephant?
Speaker A:One bite at a time.
Speaker A:Set smaller, achievable goals.
Speaker A:I remember after I had cancer surgery, it was, and I'm a relatively active guy, I work out every day usually.
Speaker A:But in the hospital, I was flat on my back for a while after my cancer surgery.
Speaker A:And it was a huge goal just to get out of bed.
Speaker A:It was another huge goal to walk, you know, to the bathroom and the, in the hospital room.
Speaker A:It's another huge goal to walk a few steps out in the hallway.
Speaker A:Gratitude.
Speaker A:The idea is celebrate these goals.
Speaker A:And when I accomplish those goals, my wife and nurses and other family members celebrated with me, hey, you did it, you know, so set small goals.
Speaker A:Celebrate your accomplishment no matter how minor they are.
Speaker A:And maybe track dip, you know, have a, whatever, you know, have a.
Speaker A:Some treat or something.
Speaker A:And this can help you.
Speaker A:Here's what we're talking about here.
Speaker A:We're talking about seeing progress and seeing the progress and acknowledging it.
Speaker A:Don't discount your progress at all.
Speaker A:Expect to make progress, but set goals and go for it.
Speaker A:And when you set goals and you start to reach them, what that, what that provides you is a optimistic view of life.
Speaker A:So set small goals.
Speaker A:The fifth one, our final, one final thing to first to focus in on is to practice gratitude.
Speaker A:Again, the word practice gratitude.
Speaker A:Say thank you.
Speaker A:Say thank you a lot to people Remind yourself to thank.
Speaker A:Thank your creator for who you are and where you're at right now, even if they seem small.
Speaker A:You can thank your creator.
Speaker A:You can thank your spouse.
Speaker A:You can thank friends and family, the people maybe who tried to help care for you, hospital staff and so on.
Speaker A:Tell them that you're thankful.
Speaker A:And when you shift the focus away from your malady, whatever it is, to what's missing out of your life, to what you have in your life, that's a good thing.
Speaker A:And you share that by sharing that with other people.
Speaker A:And that's what I want to encourage you to do.
Speaker A:Just that.
Speaker A:You can do that verbally.
Speaker A:That's one of the best ways of doing it.
Speaker A:You know, you can also do it online through, you know, Facebook post and that type of thing.
Speaker A:You know, one of the coolest ways to do it?
Speaker A:Not people do this much anymore.
Speaker A:Send a thank you card or a note.
Speaker A:That's so awesome.
Speaker A:When you send those and when you get those, practice gratitude.
Speaker A:And maybe even remind yourself, you know, every day.
Speaker A:One of the things that I do sometimes is I try to set in my mind's eye as soon as my feet hit the floor, one foot thank the other foot, you thank you.
Speaker A:So you can do that.
Speaker A:And the idea is to practice this, to make it a part of your life.
Speaker A:Do it verbally.
Speaker A:Don't just do it in your head.
Speaker A:Do it verbally or write it down.
Speaker A:Do it in some way.
Speaker A:There's that.
Speaker A:There's that.
Speaker A:So we've talked about several things here that you can do by taking massive action and changing your attitude.
Speaker A:We've talked about self compassion.
Speaker A:We talked about challenging negative thoughts.
Speaker A:We talk about focusing on the present, setting small goals and achieving them.
Speaker A:Practicing gratitude.
Speaker A:Let me give you a bonus one.
Speaker A:Let me give you a bonus one.
Speaker A:And that is surround yourself with positive images.
Speaker A:That's people and other things that could uplift and support you.
Speaker A:That is, sometimes we need to kind of compartmentalize that word negative people or negative situations and take it in small doses and spend a little more time with positive people and positive things or activities that make you feel good, that bring you joy and positive energy.
Speaker A:Maybe that's even when you watch television or listen to music and things like it.
Speaker A:Don't necessarily listen to the news or other things that bring you down, but listen to positive comedy shows or things like this that can bring you up.
Speaker A:You can also surround your space that you have in your room with positive things.
Speaker A:Flowers, balloons, uplifting statements, that kind of a thing.
Speaker A:In the.
Speaker A:In the office where I'm recording this podcast here today, this lesson of the day.
Speaker A:I have a token that somebody gave me that says believe.
Speaker A:That says believe.
Speaker A:And I love it.
Speaker A:I see that every day.
Speaker A:What is going on your life that you can do?
Speaker A:These are some of the actions and some of the attitudes that you can do that you can shift to make your life a little better and have an attitude for healing through hope and humor.
Speaker A:It's all about a process here.
Speaker A:And the process is going to lead us to developing your personal credo, your cancer coping credo.
Speaker A:Your credo is your statement of belief about what is going on in your life.
Speaker A:And it's going to help guide you through this whole process.
Speaker A:So here today, your, your homework for this lesson is to decide about one action.
Speaker A:One action you're going to do that's going to be helpful to your process has to be something positive.
Speaker A:It has to be something you physically do, you know, like setting a goal and accomplish it or saying thank you to someone.
Speaker A:What's one action?
Speaker A:And as we go along, we're going to develop this credo.
Speaker A:You can find much more about what we're talking about here, including exercises, more exercises about developing your written credo.
Speaker A:A little more complete version of this course we're talking about by heading on over to the our website, which is cancerandcomedy.com free.
Speaker A:That's where you can find the free HH Healing Through Hope and humor free course.
Speaker A:Well, now it's time for something really fun.
Speaker A:It's time for our cancer and comedy segment.
Speaker A:Dr.
Speaker A:Brad's bad joke of the Day.
Speaker A:This is a kind of a cool story about resilience and not giving up.
Speaker A:This old farmer had a mule and the old mule was getting up in years.
Speaker A:It was a cranky old mule.
Speaker A:It was kind of, you know, kind of difficult and it was losing its eyesight and it was not a good situation at all.
Speaker A:The farmer was kind of frustrated with this mule anyhow.
Speaker A:He was kind of looking for excuse to, to kind of, you know, get rid of the mule.
Speaker A:Nobody wanted the mule.
Speaker A:And the mule was out wandering around the field one day and I'll be dog gone.
Speaker A:This mule tried to get a drink or something out of this well and this mule fell down into the well, this brand new well that been dug up.
Speaker A:And it was a deep well, 15ft or so deep.
Speaker A:And the mule started braying and hollering down there and the old farmer was there and says, I, I don't know what to do, but I guess we'll just, you know, I guess we're just gonna have to bury this mule right here.
Speaker A:And so what'd he do?
Speaker A:He just.
Speaker A:The big pile of dirt that was there from digging this new well, he just got his shovel and he started shoveling dirt on the back of that mule D down to the bottom of this well.
Speaker A:And just think, I'm just going to bury this mule right here, leave it right here.
Speaker A:Nothing I can do.
Speaker A:Well, he'd throw a shovel of dirt in, hit the donkey, or hit the mule in the back.
Speaker A:You know what the mule would do would shake it off, step on top of the dirt farmer, threw a shovel of dirt in, hit the donkey on the back, hit the mule in the back, shake it off, step up.
Speaker A:More dirt, shake it off, step up, more dirt, shake it off, step up, more dirt from the farmer, Shake it off and step up, more dirt from the farmer, Shake it off and step up.
Speaker A:Until after about an hour or so that the farmer was shocked to see that the mule was totally at the top of the well and jumped out of the well and ran off because it had shaken it off and stepped up all the way to get himself out of that well.
Speaker A:Shake it off and step up.
Speaker A:But now it's time to shift gears a bit for Dr.
Speaker A:Brad's faith it or Break it segment on this issue of this episode of Faith it or Break It.
Speaker A:I want to talk to you about some big time fishermen.
Speaker A:Well, they weren't big at first.
Speaker A:Peter and some of his buddies were out fishing.
Speaker A:They were followers of Jesus.
Speaker A:This is a story in the Gospel of John, chapter 21.
Speaker A:They weren't having any luck.
Speaker A:They were throwing their nets on the left side of the boat and they were coming with nothing.
Speaker A:And it was, you know, this was their livelihood, fishing.
Speaker A:If they didn't bring any fish, they were in trouble, you know, for their livelihood and let alone something to eat.
Speaker A:And Jesus was on the shore, they weren't too far out.
Speaker A:And he said, hey, how's the fishing going?
Speaker A:And he said, friends, haven't you caught any fish?
Speaker A:And they said, no, no luck whatsoever.
Speaker A:And Jesus said to them, hey, why don't you try throwing your nets?
Speaker A:Pull your nets off the left side, throw them on the right side of the boat, the right side and see what happens and you'll find some there.
Speaker A:Well, they may be a little bit reluctant, Peter and the rest of the fishermen, but they say, oh, well, we got nothing to lose, let's give it a shot.
Speaker A:So they pulled their net up off the left side of the boat, threw on the right side of the boat and boom, full of fish.
Speaker A:It says in the Bible in John 21 they were not able to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.
Speaker A:Peter got so excited he jumped out of the boat and he kind of ran it, swam and ran it to be with Jesus.
Speaker A:And they had a feast of fish on the beach eventually and it was a good thing they had abundance.
Speaker A:Here's all I really want you to know that being a person of faith is a risk a little bit.
Speaker A:But what's the risk of not being a man or woman of faith?
Speaker A:The risk is deterioration, you know, and nothing happening and it's going down.
Speaker A:In this case, they were fishing and nothing was happening.
Speaker A:They weren't doing nothing.
Speaker A:That's the break it far part of the faith that'll break it.
Speaker A:The faith was taking a chance with Jesus and why not?
Speaker A:They did that and great things happen.
Speaker A:I know in my life I've been a church planter.
Speaker A:I've taken mission trips.
Speaker A:I took a risk one time by in the Soviet Union.
Speaker A:I helped smuggle in Bibles there and it was very to hand out the people who hadn't, didn't have the word of God in their life.
Speaker A:It was an incredible story and it was a little bit risky to be sure.
Speaker A:But we went on faith and great things happened.
Speaker A:Great things happened to Peter.
Speaker A:He went on to, you know, be one of the great apostles and is one of the reasons why many people are in the Judeo Christian faith now is because of the work of Peter, because he was faith and put his nets on the right side of the boat.
Speaker A:And I just want to encourage you, they have faith in your life and whatever your cancer journey is, try stuff, do things, be a man or woman of faith, take action and who knows, you may just have an abundance in your life at any rate you are definitely going to be more fulfilled personally and who knows, maybe you'll be like Peter and be so excited you'll jump out of the boat and you'll have with, with, with joy.
Speaker A:Face it or break it.
Speaker A:Our featured segment here on cancer and comedy is our lifter upper listener series.
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Speaker A:If you'd like to be a part of the lifter upper listener series, really easy.
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Speaker A:Our listener upper today is he likes to call himself repeatedly Dead Fred because he's had over a dozen near death experiences.
Speaker C:So you just have to go with your gut.
Speaker C:And my gut tells me I'm supposed to try and take this ridiculously awful situation that I was put in and try and put a positive spin on it and help others put positive spins on whatever they're going through.
Speaker C:And you know, am I going to be successful every time?
Speaker C:Definitely not.
Speaker C:But am I going to be successful to some degree and help some people?
Speaker C:Absolutely.
Speaker C:So that's my best guess for now as to why I'm supposed to be here.
Speaker C:In Judaism, you know, we're supposed to be a light upon nations.
Speaker C:And I think as an individual, I'm supposed to try and be a light upon those who are, I guess, downtrodden or struggling and need some extra light in their lives.
Speaker A:That was Fred Rutland.
Speaker A:He likes to call himself repeatedly Dead Fred because he's had over a dozen near death experiences.
Speaker A:He's going to be sharing that on an upcoming episode here of Cancer and Comedy that you do not want to miss.
Speaker A:If you would like to participate in our Lifter Upper Listener series, so easy, just go to voicemail.cancerandcomedy.com and and just leave me a voicemail.
Speaker A:And who knows, maybe you'll be on an upcoming episode of Cancer and Comedy.
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Speaker A:Brad Miller reminding you that a cheerful heart is good medicine.
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